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| plasma Guru  Joined: 08/04/2012 Location: GermanyPosts: 437 |
great Matherp , i like this project |
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CaptainBoing Guru Joined: 07/09/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1985 |
this is a revolution in use of this device. one thing that always clouded the Pi from my side of things was the languages used - this makes it so accessible. Think I will dig out my Pi and give this a go - I have no application for now but just having the capability opens up possibilities. Possibly a "standard" hardware expansion needs to be agreed - more bits, Analogue etc. A board that "back-packs" the Pi and provides all|most of the hardware compatibility via fast SPI with a firmware abstraction layer to make it transparent to the MMBasic code perhaps? |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3650 |
Maybe an alternative (to the Pi) would be another uC that has ADC etc (and more I/Os)? Lots are available... Cost - from a bit more than the Pi (but ADC etc would increase the Pi's cost). Some are faster, though how fast is fast enough... John |
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| hitsware Guru Joined: 23/11/2012 Location: United StatesPosts: 535 |
An Arduino socket would make lots available. Most boards don't use the same uP as the Pi-3 though. |
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| Tinine Guru Joined: 30/03/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1646 |
Very interesting and exciting stuff. How much of the Pi's memory would be accessible? Tinine |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3650 |
Probably as much as you want - did you look at the amount already shown in the screen shot(s)? How much more did you want? John |
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| Tinine Guru Joined: 30/03/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1646 |
Precisely why I asked. It's showing, what, a 1000th of the Pi's total memory? Tinine |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3650 |
As I posted: probably as much as you want. How much more did you want? Or, how much more did you want or expect reasonably to see in Peter's very first post of something newly built? John |
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| Tinine Guru Joined: 30/03/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1646 |
My question was a simple one-liner, based on the observation that, from the screen-shot, MM-Basic appears to recognize only 512K. Nothing about my wants/needs. I don't see why you have to respond as if this was a dumb question. The fact that I asked shows that I haven't made any assumptions about this product, knowing full-well that this is "Peter's very first post of something newly built". I'm kinda new here....are you the forum's smart-a$$? There's usually always at least one. Tinine |
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TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5896 |
Problem with the latest version Running as root made no difference. Jim VK7JH MMedit MMBasic Help |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 8573 |
You can fix this by installing this but I'd hoped that by using the C library and not the daemon it wasn't needed - obviously not the case. I'm still playing with the various options for controlling I/O so this may all changes |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3650 |
I cannot see why you don't understand about the memory: probably as much as you want. Peter probably just made any version with a decent amount for testing so something could be done - like testing I/O. You could do with being a lot less impatient. It's new. New versions of anything are normally missing some things someone would like. The alternative is we wait for maybe months with nothing at all posted - certainly not the ones that have been - so a fully-featured version could just spring forth. Not a great idea. Truly no good deed goes unpunished! John |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5896 |
Running it on a different PI solved the dependency problem but the second time I ran it gave another problem Also, the FILES command lists files (including hidden ones) but not directories. Jim VK7JH MMedit MMBasic Help |
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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9059 |
@ matherp - do you see this being able to run on the Pi-Zero-W at any time in the future? You know what they say about assumptions - they being the mother of all........ I also understand that this is very much alpha tinkering, but do you have plans to be able to support GUI and drawing controls via HDMI as the current MM's do on the LCD's? Just curious. Still love the TFT-based mites, but the pi-based one could open up MMBASIC for a whole heap of other things that need the speed that the Pi can provide over the PIC32 series of chips. Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5896 |
@grogster Pi Zero 'should' be OK. @Peter After the problem with " initInitialise: Can't lock /var/run/pigpio.pid", I found mmbasic still running and consuming 99% of the CPU. Killing that process and deleting the /var/run/pigpio.pid file gave me another error I found another instance of mmbasic running (but this time using 0% CPU. Killing that process and finally I could run mmbasic again. Jim VK7JH MMedit MMBasic Help |
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| Tinine Guru Joined: 30/03/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1646 |
What is there to "understand" about "probably"? Nothing to do with being "impatient". I have never owned/used a Pi. For now, I have settled on the E-100, for a product that is already selling and it's already overkill for the application. My question was merely a techical curiosity, the response could well have been along the lines of; MM-Basic was intended for microcontrollers and has some form of 9 bit memory addressing limitation. For the same reason given above, "probably" is right up there with "assumption". Tinine |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 8573 |
Jim Thanks for your efforts in testing. I need to work on the FILES command to make it compatible with the Micromite syntax. Currently it is just a hack version. I'm going to try moving to the pigpio daemon in the next version. This will mean there is just one privileged process run at startup and then the mmbasic process can be run without root access. I think it will also mean multiple copies of mmbasic can be run at the same time but this needs proving. I'm currently working on timed I/O which provides the basis for many of the commands and functions. DISTANCE and PULSIN are working but need tidying up. I hope to post a new version later today. Re the 512K issue: I don't intend to re-invent the MMBasic memory model and we don't want the MMBasic application to page so the memory size should be appropriate to the Pi in use. In my case a Pi3 has 1M of memory so 512K seems sensible. I'll make the memory size a parameter when running mmbasic so it can be tuned to the target pi and application. e.g mmbasic -m512 |
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| cdeagle Senior Member  Joined: 22/06/2014 Location: United StatesPosts: 261 |
Tindie has a bunch of Raspberry PI hardware add-ons at the following link https://www.tindie.com/browse/raspberry-pi/?page=1&pt=ac_cat_search |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3650 |
Fair chance it has 1GB :) Not today's task I expect, but you may want to lock pages in memory so it doesn't page in on what may be quite late but urgent usage of some part (e.g. an "interrupt"). John |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3650 |
What a bizarre "could well" "9 bit memory addressing" would have been!! Besides, had it been so I would have said so. John |
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